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Adult male. General colour above dingy or olive-green, passing 

 into yellowish on the rump and on the upper tail-coverts ; wing- 

 coverts and secondary quills dark brown with whitish terminal spots, 

 and externally edged with the dingy green colour of the back ; pri- 

 mary quills brown, externally edged with yellowish green ; basal 

 part of the secondaries white, middle part blackish without any sign 

 of yellowish edgings, rest of the secondaries brown, with yellowish 

 edgings to the outer web and with whitish tips ; the wing there- 

 fore shows a large blackish patch in the middle, anteriorly bordered 

 by the white tips of the greater wing-coverts ; under wing-coverts, 

 edge of wing, axillaries, and inner margin of quiUs whitish ; tail- 

 feathers brown, externally bordered with yellowish green ; all 

 the underparts dingy white, more or less strongly washed with 

 greenish yellow or creamy colour ; centre of crest bright orange- 

 yellow, bordered on cither side and in front by a narrow bright 

 yellow streak, this again bordered by a black or blackish streak ; 

 sides of head and ear-coverts dingy greenish gro)' ; region round the 

 eye, lores, and chin whitish ; bill blackish brown ; legs and claws 

 pale horny brown. Total length about 3' 75 inches, culmen 0*4, 

 wing 2*1, tail 1-5, tarsus 0'7. 



Adult female. Very much like the adult male in colour ; but the 

 centre of the crest is simply bright yellow with no orange colour. 



Younr/ birds have the crown of the head without any yellow, and 

 the general colour above is a dusky grey with a dingy olive tinge. 



Hab. The Golden-crested Wren is found throughout the Palse- 

 arctic Region. 



Obs. In the N.W. Himalayas and Western China it is repre- 

 sented by a somewhat larger race (M. Jiimcdaijensis, Gould). The 

 differences in size between the Himalayan and the European birds 

 are but slight, if we compare the former with a large series of E. 

 cristatus. The flame-coloured interior of the crest is scarcely more 

 developed in the Asiatic form than in old birds of the European 

 species. The two specimens in the British-Museum collection from 

 the Himalayas measure as follows : — 



c? . Wing 2-3 inches, tail 1-6-i, tarsus 0*7. 



2 (Nepal). Wing 2-03 inches, tail 1-45, tarsus 0'7. 



Regulus cristatus. 



a. Ad. sk. Cork, Ireland. W. Mahony, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Juv. sk. Colebrooke, Aug. (A. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.] . 



B. Brooh'). 



c. Ad. St. Saffron Walden. J. Clarke, E.sq. [P.]. 

 cl. (J ad. sk. Shropshire, Jan. Gould Collection. 



e. Ad. St. Devonshire. Col. Montagu [P.l. 



/. Ad. St. (albino). Devon.shire. Col. Montagu [P.l. 



f/,h. Ad. St. ' Avington, Hants. E. Shelley, Esq. [P.]. 



i, A;, c? $ ad. sk. Avington, Hants, Nov. 25. Capt. Shelley [P7]. 



/. [ d ] puU. sk. Isle of Wight. T. Butler, Esq. [P.]. 



m. Pidl. sk. Maidenhead, Berks. Gould Collection. 



«. 2 ad. sk. Middlesex (O. S.). F. D. Godman and O 



Salvin, Esqrs .[P.]. 



